Aeschylus c. 523 ELEUSIS GREECE?c. 456 BC/GELA ITALY) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. Prometheus Bound; The Persians; Seven against Thebes; The Suppliants; the trilogy known as The Oresteia; consisting of the three tragedies Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides .Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus; is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.n 456 BC;on a trip to city of Gela he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. just as a prophecy said that he would be killed by a falling object.IN THE PHOTO: To day the statue of Aischylos in modern urban Eleusina